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A Talent For War
Alex Benedict #1. I read #9 and wasn't all THAT enthused, but this one grabbed me a bit more.
Although I had trouble following the plot a bit, because, me.
I think I shall try #2.
Quote:
The man who had overslept, missed the shuttle, and thereby missed the flight, mentioned his appreciation to an Almighty who, apparently, was less indulgent to the twenty-six hundred others.Quote:
The man who had overslept, missed the shuttle, and thereby missed the flight, mentioned his appreciation to an Almighty who, apparently, was less indulgent to the twenty-six hundred others.Quote:
In case you haven't heard, he said, Gabe was on the Capella. I'm sorry. -- This is confusing if one has read book nine first!Quote:
"You play chess, Alex?" [...]But I was never good at the game.
Redfield's features softened, as though he had recognized the presence of a social disability.Quote:
Bingo.Read:
4/2025
Cauldron
Hutch travels to nearly the center of the galaxy to find out where those darn Omegas are coming from, and why.
Words I Had To Look Up:
superluminals (pg. 373) -- FTL spaceships.
Read:
10/2009
Polaris
Alex Benedict, #2. The crew and passengers mysteriously disappears from a space yacht that had journeyed to see the star Delta Karpis collide with a dwarf. Many years (a hundred?) later Alex and Chase get involved in finding out what happened. And why does someone not want them to?
The scene where the house AI was disabled while burglars searched the house, stealing some not-all-that valuable stuff, which was later dumped in a river; well, it seems very familiar. Like I read it recently in another book by this author? I'll have to look around and see.
Quote:
The author never settled for a single adjective where two or three could be levered in.Quote:
Scramblers could, of course, be manufactured to resemble comm links or compacts or virtually any other kind of metal object. But my philosophy is that if someone has a weapon pointed at him, he should know about it.Read:
4/2025
Village In The Sky
Alex Benedict, #9. Not-an-archeologist in space! An interesting read, but I'm not getting too excited here. Possibly the AIs are my favorite characters!
Quote:
She ordered toast and grapes from the generator.Quote:
"It's my library card," she said. "It should be more than sufficient to prove that you found us."Read:
4/2025
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